Eurocities, the network of major European cities, is a dynamic and international team where we have trust in people, value 
constructive exchanges and collaborative work. We help people thrive in a friendly, open and healthy environment while promoting a work/life balance.
We are recruiting a Project Coordinator with expertise in service development and data analysis, to work on our NetZeroCities project.
The candidate would ideally start in January 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.
About Eurocities
Eurocities is the largest network of European cities. We count over 200 large cities among our membership, representing more than 150 million people across 38 countries, from within and outside the European Union.
With three out of four people in Europe living in an urban environment, today’s challenges have a particularly strong impact on cities – at the same time, cities are uniquely placed to tackle these issues.
Our mission is to build places where people can enjoy a good quality of life in a healthy, green environment. Where low-carbon and smart solutions make for cleaner air and better public services. And where people can move around sustainably, feel connected to their community and all newcomers are welcomed.
Our work is as diverse as the municipalities that make up the Eurocities universe. Our actions cut across a broad range of themes and foster change through advocacy and projects, while our membership offers extensive networking opportunities, activities, events, training and campaigns.
About the project
NetZeroCities (NZC) is an initiative launched as part of the European Green Deal that directly supports the European Commission’s Mission for 100 Climate-neutral and Smart Cities by 2030. NZC is delivered by a 33-member consortium comprising diverse partners from across Europe, supporting the 111 Mission cities to achieve the Mission objectives through expertise, tools and guidance, capacity building and knowledge sharing, and innovative approaches to systemic change.
NZC has designed and is delivering the Mission Platform, which brings together a range of support to cities, including: City Advisors, the focal support point for Mission Cities, and thematic experts on systems innovation, finance, citizen engagement, social innovation, and technical solutions, with a digital Portal which provides self-service online solutions.
About the role
As Project Coordinator for data and tools of NetZeroCities, you will oversee day-to-day data operations across NZC tools and datasets to support delivery of services for cities via the Portal and internal data processes and tools within the NZC consortium, including the NZC data library.
You will orchestrate data workflows across the consortium and lead the normalisation and harmonisation of datasets feeding NZC tools. You will explore and enhance emerging finance data and tools and drive their convergence with existing datasets. You will also act as a key interface with internal and external stakeholders, technical partners, and user communities.
Key responsibilities
- Reporting and insight: Prepare concise briefings and dashboards for decision-makers (KPIs, risks, decisions required).
- Liaison with key partners: Coordinate structured exchanges with internal and external partners, align schemas, document and track issues to timely resolution.
- Tools and platform operations: Support the reliable operation of data-dependent tools on the Mission Platform (e.g. Barometer and NetZeroPlanner) and facilitate interoperability between systems.
- Workflow orchestration: Coordinate cross-team workflows with technical colleagues, City Support Officers, and monitoring & evaluation stakeholders; track milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure closure of actions.
- Normalisation and harmonisation: Implement and maintain schema mappings, controlled vocabularies, and transformation pipelines feeding the NZC data library.
- Quality assurance: Run routine Quality Assurance/validation checks; propose incremental improvements to taxonomy and documentation.
- Emerging finance data: Identify and assess emerging climate-finance datasets and tools; prototype their convergence with existing NZC datasets; document interfaces and raise change requests for integration.
Your key priorities for the first three months in the role would be to:
- Establish shared data glossaries and schema mappings with external partners and internal teams.
- Implement a lightweight Quality Assurance routine and deliver a dashboard summarising core KPIs and risks.
- Define and agree the cadence for cross-team data workflows, with clear ownership and reporting.
Profile
You are an experienced professional who is full of initiative, self-driven, curious, creative, flexible and results-oriented.
The skills and experience to do this job successfully include *:
- A successful track record of at least 5 years of work experience in the field of data operations, digital service delivery, or platform coordination.
- Understanding of city administration and climate transition topics.
- University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Proficiency with collaboration and productivity tools (e.g. spreadsheets/dashboards, shared workspaces), and familiarity with data documentation.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder tasks, manage timelines and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organisational skills and a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach in complex environments.
Assets
- Experience with EU-funded projects or work in/with city administrations.
- Exposure to digital user research, analytics or service design.
- Experience with data modelling/mapping, controlled vocabularies or lightweight ETL/Quality Assurance routines.
- Knowledge of EU policies.
(*) We are looking for candidates who fulfil most of these criteria, but do not hesitate to apply if you think that you could be a good fit for the position.
We offer
- A full-time position as employee, under Belgian legislation. The selected candidate will need to either live in Belgium or be willing to move to Belgium for the duration of the contract (candidates need to provide a Belgian address)
- A one-year fixed-term contract (possibility of extension depending on funding)
- Between 3,200 € and 3,600 € monthly gross salary, according to profile and experience
- Flexible working hours
- Part-time teleworking
Benefits
- Meal vouchers
- pension plan
- hospitalisation insurance
- public transport costs
- 13th month
- éco-chèques
- 90€ net per month of teleworking allowance
- training opportunities
How to apply
Applicants are requested to send a letter of motivation, explicitly describing their relevant experience and linking it to the requirements for the position, in two pages maximum, together with a CV with at least two referees (including your current or last employer) by 12h00 on Wednesday 26 November 2025 to: Patricia de Wouters, People & Operations Director, at [email protected].
Please send the documents in pdf format and mention ‘Project Coordinator – Data & Tools’ in the subject line.
Interviews will be held in person in Brussels on Wednesday 10 and Friday 12 December 2025.
We are aware that you might use AI when applying for this position. It’s perfectly fine to use AI to brainstorm, structure your ideas or edit your language. Just please be aware that while AI is one of the tools we use in Eurocities, the main tool we need for the work here is our brains: This is a content-based position, and one that AI cannot do for you. Please keep this in mind during the process to avoid disappointment on both sides later in the process. We want to use this interview to get to know you and your ideas, not what ChatGPT thinks the best answers are.
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